Pitting ‘generations’ against each other is a classic tactic to divide the people on meaningless bullshit. Don’t fall for it.
Culture war is a means to distract us from class war
Where is the ipad?
The world has been fighting Boomers for 4 decades. They’re not all villains, but certainly the majority of villains are Boomers.
Yeah! Hit him! Right in that soft boomer belly! [munches popcorn]
The generations are:
- Boomer: anybody older than me who I disagree with.
- Millennial: anybody younger than me who I disagree with
- Gen Z: anyone who uses whichever social networks are taboo at the moment.
The are no other generations.
That Gen Z fighter is going to turn around, hit their trainer in the nuts and call them a boomer.
We should be fighting the 1%, not each other.
You forgot the fact that the 1% keep us poorly educated and propagandized against our own interests on purpose.
We’re so fucking stupid as a result, that Americans believe the following unironically:
I’ve met some people that are that fucking stupid.
It’s incredible to me that they manage to put on pants and get to work on time each morning.
I’m so tough. I’m the toughest. Gen Z and Boomers aren’t tough enough. I’m the though one. Yeah, I might have been neglected as a child but that made me tough, definitely not emotionally stunted. Tough tough tough. I’m tough.
—Average Gen X’er to the mirror every morning
Let’s ignore discrepancies in economics, geography, race and culture and suggest people behave, en mass, based on the decades they were born in.
This is just astrology for the politically feeble.
Events in one’s lifetime impact them more than the alignment of the stars
Yes, but those events and the relative importance of those events are highly variable.
Someone living in the 80s in a small town in Scotland is unlikely to have lived through the same 80s as someone running a FTSE company in New York at that time.
There’s this idea, and I think it is particularly American, that the whole world lives to their narrative. The narrative of the rather privileged middle class.
For example when we talk about the 80s the narrative is big hair, cocaine, excess… But that’s only true of a very small proportion of the world. I know plenty of folk that didn’t see a cell phone until the early 2000s.
Hey, it’s no worse of a grouping than any of the categories you mentioned.
Fuck the generational war. The class war is real and it’s one sided, it’s basically a class genocide.
I disagree.
It’s a question of granularity and correlation.
I think culture is a pretty useful grouping for assessing a lot of traits and behaviours. Sure, it depends on the culture and the trait you are assessing, but as groupings go there are entire academic fields devoted to the study of how those things work.
Similarly with economic factors and class. These can be useful in describing proportions of a population. And how they react relative, again, providing the trait we are assessing is relative to that factor.
I know you are probably just being glib, and you are right that and generalisation can be pretty useless. But I still think the exceedingly broad “generation” is the most useless.
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Xer’s never really got over that “everyone is dumb except for me” phase that most ditch after they actually get kissed.
Eh. The Gen Xers I know all admit they’d be fucked in today’s housing market if they didn’t already have theirs. The are generally very sympathetic and appreciate how lucky they are.
To modify this comic, they sit down for a show and are quickly horrified at the brutality of the spectacle.
Meh. Whatever man.
Gen X looks too young in this.
(The boxing arena is on fire.)
Gen X sitting around doing fuck all as usual.
We had our turn being adults when we were 10.
Me who’s both:
I’m near the start of the millennial generation, my older brothers are Gen x and more in-between than I am. There’s about 5-6 years between all of us and we represent two generations in varying degrees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
Xennials are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts.
Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983,[1] though some extend this further in either direction.[2][3] Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. Xennials are almost exclusively the children of baby boomers and came of age during a rapidly changing period that was the 1990s.
I’ve heard it referred to as the Oregon Trail generation.
Yeah, pretty much all of us fit in that range.
I easily fit in more with millennials than my brothers do. My oldest brother acts a lot more like Gen x than the rest of us.
Gen X: Whatever.
Whatever you do, don’t become a referee, they will all turn on you.
